Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.

We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.

We cry for the hand of God to bring us salvation, but then we seize the voice of God and use it to profess our destructive nature.

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.